Bundoksia Lucanas , 2021

Li, Yong, Luo, Xinxing, Zhang, Jiawei, Wang, Zongqing & Che, Yanli, 2022, A new species of Bundoksia Lucanas, 2021 with comments on its subfamilial placement, based on morphological and molecular data, ZooKeys 1085, pp. 145-163 : 145

Bundoksia Lucanas, 2021

Bundoksia Lucañas, 2021: 1012 (Type species: Bundoksia rufocercata (Shelford, 1911), by original designation)

Diagnosis.

Sexual dimorphism and ocelli spots distinct. Male. Pronotum nearly trapezoidal or subelliptical, uneven with depressions in medium surface, posterior margin rounded. Tegmina and wings fully developed. Front femur usually type A. Tibia flattened with sparse spines. Tarsus with smooth pulvillus. Claws symmetrical and unspecialised, arolium present. The first abdominal tergum of males specialised or not. Supra-anal plate symmetrical; subgenital plate symmetrical, styli stick-like, similar size. Male genitalia. L2d base with several rows of serration, L2v distal part armed with spines; L3 unciform. R1 of right phallomere armed with spines. Female. Body thicker than the male. Pronotum parabolic, posterior margin straight. Tegmina reduced, only reaching hind margin of first abdominal tergite or metathorax; triangular or quadrate; wings reduced to small lobe. Supra-anal plate truncate, symmetrical. Subgenital plate valvular.

Remarks.

Lucañas (2021) mentioned that the first abdominal tergite specialised with setose gland was diagnostic for Bundoksia and distinguished Bundoksia from the other Archiblattinae by its smooth pronotum and flattened tibiae and Blattinae in terms of distinct femoral armament (meso- and metafemur sparsely armed with dissimilarly-sized spines). In previous studies, it is common that species of the same genus have or lack the abdominal tergite tergal glands, i.e. Episymploce ( Li et al., 2020), Scalida (Wang et Che, 2010) in Ectobiidae and Periplaneta (Roth, 1994) in Blattidae . We consider that the first abdominal tergum of males, specialised or not, is not a diagnostic character of the genus Bundoksia , which can be distinguished from the genus, Cartoblatta Shelford by other characters (tegmina short and quadrate, not covering the first abdominal tergite; female supra-anal plate with hind margin cleft). Therefore, we revised the generic diagnostic 'the first abdominal tergum of males specialised’ to 'specialised or not’.